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A work published under the name of some one other than the author.

Published under the name of some one other than the author.

contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.

An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion.

Persons supported by alms; almsmen. [Archaic] Holinshed.

By the length of, as distinguished from across. "Along the lowly lands." Dryden. The kine . . . went along the highway. 1 Sam. vi. 12.

Pertaining to, furnished with, expressed by, or in the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement.

At full speed; in great haste; also, at once. "They fled amain." Holinshed.

or indicating, ambition; showy; aspiring; as, an ambitious style. A giant statue . . . Pushed by a wild and artless race, From off wide, ambitious base. Collins.

To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy. By ambushed men behind their temple Dryden.

base, or by the union of two oxides, two sulphides, selenides, or tellurides, as distinguished from a haloid compound. [R.] Berzelius.

The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from katabolism.

Dissection of the human body, as distinguished from zoötomy; anthropotomy. [R.]

Unpublished narratives. Burke.

o England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc.

The principles of the established church of England; also, in a restricted sense, the doctrines held by the high-church party.

Britain, that is, an English Saxon, or one the Saxons who settled in England, as distinguished from a continental (or "Old") Saxon.

One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.

Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the earth. A thousand pound a year, annual support. Shak.

ith; -- used appropriately of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority. Do they mean to annul laws of inestimable value to our liberties Burke.